Kansas City Burglar & Fire Alarm Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431598339
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lenexa, KS, USA
- Phone
- 9133620000
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,104
- Expenses
- $1,562
- Assets
- $27,563
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Neil Atha (President)
- Lucas Ingala (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Neil Atha (President)
- Lucas Ingala (Vice President)
- Alysia Bianco (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Kansas City Burglar & Fire Alarm Association is a not-for-profit organization that exists to promote the mutual interest of the electronic security industry, foster cordial relations among the members and stimulate a wider and more extensive use of burglar, fire and supervisory alarms and other electronic signals.
What it reported doing in 2024
Quarterly Membership Meetings
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 19
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.3%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 70.7%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 69.4%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 17.65; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 18.3% of revenue deployed · 70.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.